Tips to Find Local Coverage Determinations and Billing and Coding Instructions (REVISED 4/6/2022)

Tips to Find Local Coverage Determinations and Billing and Coding Instructions (REVISED 4/6/2022) We often receive suggestions through our website surveys to make it easier to find LCDs and the associated Billing and Coding articles. All [...]

Tips to Find Local Coverage Determinations and Billing and Coding Instructions

Tips to Find Local Coverage Determinations and Billing and Coding Instructionssp We frequently receive suggestions through our website surveys to make it easier to find LCDs and the associated Billing and Coding articles. All LCDs and [...]

New Local Coverage Determination for Sacroiliac Joint Injections and Procedures

New Local Coverage Determination for Sacroiliac Joint Injections and Procedures National Government Services, as your MAC, is bringing to your attention a newly created LCD policy change that will effect providers who render and bill for [...]

Local Coverage Determination Open Meeting Announcement

Local Coverage Determination Open Meeting Announcement Jurisdiction 6/Jurisdiction K Part A/Part B MAC Open Meeting Date Meeting Time Meeting Location Wednesday, 2/24/2021 12:00‒4:00 p.m. CT 1:00‒5:00 p.m. ET [...]

National Government Services Proposed LCDs for Comment

National Government Services Proposed LCDs for Comment The proposed LCDs listed below are being presented for comment for the Jurisdiction 6 and Jurisdiction K MACs. The formal comment period extends from 2/10/2022 through 3/26/2022. These [...]

National Government Services Proposed LCDs For Comment

National Government Services Proposed LCDs For Comment The proposed LCDs listed below are being presented for comment for the Jurisdiction 6 and Jurisdiction K MACs. The formal comment period extends from 2/2/2023 through 3/18/2023. These [...]

Revised Coverage Policies for Facet Joint Interventions for Pain Management

Revised Coverage Policies for Facet Joint Interventions for Pain Management FUTURE Local Coverage Determination (LCD) Facet Joint Interventions for Pain Management (L35936) Billing and Coding: Facet Joint Interventions for Pain Management [...]

The Great American Smokeout is Thursday 11/16/2023 - Let's Talk About Tobacco Counseling

The Great American Smokeout is Thursday 11/16/2023 - Let's Talk About Tobacco Counseling Do you treat Medicare beneficiaries/patients who are nicotine dependent? Did you know Medicare has a preventive service for tobacco cessation that allows [...]

JK Applying for an Extended Repayment Schedule

Phonetic Alphabet

table, td, th table { border-collapse: collapse; width: 50%; } Phonetic Alphabet To assist you when speaking terms that are alpha-numeric, we have implemented the phonetic alphabet. When speaking an alpha character, please use the [...]

Announcement About Medicare Participation for Calendar Year 2024

Announcement About Medicare Participation for Calendar Year 2024 The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has posted the Announcement About Medicare Participation for Calendar Year 2024. Posted 11/14/2023

MLN Connects® Special Edition for Monday, August 1, 2022

MLN Connects® Special Edition for Monday, August 1, 2022 New CMS Rule Increases Payments for Acute Care Hospitals & Advances Health Equity, Maternal Health​​​​​​​ On August 1, CMS issued a final rule for inpatient and long-term care [...]

EDI Enrollment Spotlights Packet Completion Times

EDI Enrollment Spotlights Packet Completion Times We ask that you allow seven – ten business days for processing of all requests. All requests are worked in the order in which they are received. Currently, our processing times are taking a [...]

MLN Connects® Newsletter: April 27, 2023

MLN Connects® Newsletter:  April 27, 2023 News Hospital Price Transparency Enforcement Updates For the First Time, HHS Is Making Ownership Data for All Medicare-Certified Hospice and Home Health Agencies Publicly Available [...]

NGS Cost Report Submission Reminders

NGS Cost Report Submission Reminders We strongly encourage filing of the cost report via the Medicare Cost Report E‐Filing (MCReF) System. If the cost report is submitted via MCReF, it does not need to be mailed Cost Report submissions [...]

Ways to Submit Requests

Ways to Submit Requests NGSConnex Part A: NGSConnex User Guide Part B: NGSConnex User Guide esMD Content type 8.5 Fax JK: 317-841-4530 J6: 317-841-4528 Mail National Government Services, Inc. [...]